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| From: | "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-licenses@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-licenses] Tidbits from OpenCart stripping license & attribution info |
| Date: | Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:14:17 |
| Message-Id: | robbat2-20140403T180946-293482151Z@orbis-terrarum.net |
| 1 | Very interesting ongoing ticket here: |
| 2 | https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/1286 |
| 3 | (backup copy here https://gist.github.com/uppfinnarn/9956023) |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Some interesting bits: |
| 6 | > U.S. law itself says you cannot remove or alter copyright management |
| 7 | > information. 17 U.S.C. 1202(b). It's a lesser-known part of the DMCA, |
| 8 | > and was used in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case, wherein Jacobsen, an FOSS |
| 9 | > developer, succeeded on a 1202 claim against Katzer who had removed |
| 10 | > attribution information in Jacobsen's code. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | and: |
| 13 | https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/1286#issuecomment-39468358 |
| 14 | highlighting the need to preserve author/copyright holder identity |
| 15 | information. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | Robin Hugh Johnson |
| 19 | Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
| 20 | E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
| 21 | GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |